Why Orca forum is SO CRAP!!!!!!!!

About half a year ago I posted this issue

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/topic/ORCA-special-national-characters-missing-in-URL.htm

6 months later and still - no solution and even NO SINGLE answer from so called BOONEX 'experts'.

A new release. D7.0.3. Lets check if Orca can handle special/national characters.... Why  I am NOT surprised..??

Because crap code will always stay crap regardless the version you name it?!

Lets create a new post with some (random) Polish signs in the tiltle i.e. "ĄŚĆ łóćx ńęśĆŚ óóółł234EĘę".

And this is URL to this post which has been created by the forum: http://www.sometestdomain.pl/forum/#topic/-ó-x-óóó-234E-.htm

WHOW! 21st century and BOONEX is not able to handle national/special signs for SEO. In fact they can't handle any valid URL creation in this case.

BOONEX - its official, your forum software is simple CRAP! (unfortunately same as your support which doesn't exist).

COMMUNITY: any solution please? (no it's not the server config issue :)

We use latin character only in URI generation functions because there are still a lot of PHP versions which don't support unicode in regular expressions. To avoid PHP errors we have to stay with latin characters in URIs.

If you are sure that your PHP version supports unicode then you can enable this in templates/base/scripts/BxBaseConfig.php file:

var $bAllowUnicodeInPreg = false; // allow unicode in regular expressions

change the value to true

Hope this would make Dolphin Forum crappiness less official for you. Good luck with your site ;)

I'm just glad you finally set:

var @AllowAjaxCrappiness = off;

Odd, I couldn't find anything like that in any of the files.

@smith:hello smith, alex was true, there are still a lot of PHP hosting have versions which don't support unicode in regular expressions.

open your templates/base/scripts/BxBaseConfig.php

then var $bAllowUnicodeInPreg = false; change to true.

@okiewardoyo & @alexT:
I run my own dedicated server. for the moment I have 163 clients accounts on it wih 406 domains names served.

Everything is set up for UTF-8 and it works faultless for the last 3 years.

I host everything from joomla, drupal, wordpress, phpbb2, some ecommerce sites, some dating sites..., all sort of the software.

Only one problem with URL rewriting and with special/national characters handling for SEO I ever experienced on my server is with ORCA...

This is why I said I don't think is the hosting issue.

I dont need/want to have Polish characters appear in URL but I need them to be properly translated to standard signs.

I.e ó to o, Ś to s, Ć to c, ę to e  etc etc etc.... but is not the case for now. For now I have some characters skipped and swapped with the space and some missing (see sample links in my first post).

EDIT:
I have var $bAllowUnicodeInPreg changed to true now.

Its a bit better now as there is no characters missing/skipped swapped with space in the URL.

Post title is: 2-guiyg og EASóó Ó oiugh oiąśęćńółą  ęółęśćńżąś

URL created by ORCA is: http://www.testdomain.pl/forum/#topic/2-guiyg-og-EASóó-Ó-oiugh-oiasecnóla-eólescnzas.htm

BUT: There is no need to say that URL should be ALL LOWERCASES and special characters should be translated to standard characters..... (Ó to o, ą to a)

And to make all even worst, when I copy the URL from the browser (FF, Opera, IE) address bar and paste it to address bar again, notepad (or whatever), it looks like this:

http://www.testdomain.pl/forum/#topic/2-guiyg-og-EAS%C3%B3%C3%B3-%C3%93-oiugh-oi%C4%85%C5%9B%C4%99%C4%87%C5%84%C3%B3%C5%82%C4%85-%C4%99%C3%B3%C5%82%C4%99%C5%9B%C4%87%C5%84%C5%BC%C4%85%C5%9B.htm

So for the moment ORCA is still same crap to me as it was so far :) No URL rewriteing, no national characters handling, no SEO, no even proper URL creating - simple nothing.

Any ideas please?

Just spotted that in my sample URL link from previous post only characters Ó and ó have not been rewritten!

So why is that if the other Polish signs in URL have been swapped to standard ones?

Also, all should be lower case.

We can not make special case for polish language only in the code !

We are using variants when all languages are working similar way. Of cause there are some disadvantages - since all languages are very different.

Pleeeeease..... what are you talking about??!! Special case for Polish language? Fact is that your crap orca can't handle international characters and there is NO SEO at all!

I do not require any special cases for the Polish language in the code.

Are you trying to say that apps like joomla, drupal , wordpress, prestashop, opencart, magento, phpbb3, vbulletin, SimpleMAchines and T.O.N.S of other web scripts have all languages of this world codded in?  Pleeeease.... No, they are properly design to handle international characters and URL rewriting.

I gave you my sample URL. WHY all other Polish signs have been rewritten and swapped in the URL but no ó and Ó?? In that case you rather should have a look whats wrong with your code rather than complaining that someone wants to have Polish characters properly rewritten in the URL. See... English is not the one and only language on this planet. And either - your software can handle multi-languages or not. Sad but true. End of the story.